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Put a Tax on Video-games to reduce gun violence

I dont have much to say about this honestly. I dont live there and its unlikely to have any effect outside of the state. Though frankly if they really wanted to do something they could just enforce the already existing rating system. I wouldn't exactly mind if 9 year olds couldent play condemned. But then again since 9 year olds dont have much spending money I cant help but think that the blame lies somewhere else.

Well don't put too much stock in it: It's mostly bluster to satiate Connecticut residents' demands that something should be done (and something should be done) so they're basically taking, for lack of a better analogy, the shotgun approach.

NalanoH. Wildmoon
Director of the Friends of Nalano PAC
Attorney at Lawl
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen

Because the NRA know how to lobby (bribe congressman/threaten to organize people to not vote for said politician). So attacking them is not beneficial to getting re-elected (because people are more likely to not vote for you out of spite than they are to vote for you because they like you).

Crap like this reminds me of the talk Michio Kaku gave at a Super Computing conference last year. In that context, it was how HPC (well, people who research computers in general) need lobbyists to get government money and beneficial laws. Same thing here.

Gaming needs to get some good slimy lobbyists to deal with this crap. We already have lobbyists who, to varying degrees of success, try and get piracy turned into an offense to be punished with the death penalty. We need lobbyists to say "Yo, this industry makes money and is awesome. Stop using us as the scape goat and go attack a different industry."

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And we can end world hunger and make an army of Stana Katic clones whose sole purpose in life is to walk around in lingerie and alternatingly refer to us as Batman and/or Captain Mal (I like Castle, but he is no Malcolm Reynolds).

Or we can try and make things better by working through (and subverting) the existing system.

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PSN: Gundato
If you want me on either service, I suggest PMing me here first to let me know who you are.

Because the NRA know how to lobby (bribe congressman/threaten to organize people to not vote for said politician). So attacking them is not beneficial to getting re-elected (because people are more likely to not vote for you out of spite than they are to vote for you because they like you).

Crap like this reminds me of the talk Michio Kaku gave at a Super Computing conference last year. In that context, it was how HPC (well, people who research computers in general) need lobbyists to get government money and beneficial laws. Same thing here.

Gaming needs to get some good slimy lobbyists to deal with this crap. We already have lobbyists who, to varying degrees of success, try and get piracy turned into an offense to be punished with the death penalty. We need lobbyists to say "Yo, this industry makes money and is awesome. Stop using us as the scape goat and go attack a different industry."

I don't suppose you have a link to that speech. Michio Kaku really rings my bell, in an intellectual manner. ^_~

And we can end world hunger and make an army of Stana Katic clones whose sole purpose in life is to walk around in lingerie and alternatingly refer to us as Batman and/or Captain Mal (I like Castle, but he is no Malcolm Reynolds).

Or we can try and make things better by working through (and subverting) the existing system.

Systems like this aren't fucking intractable, and at this stage fixing it is easier than trying to get anything fucking passed in Congress anyway.

NalanoH. Wildmoon
Director of the Friends of Nalano PAC
Attorney at Lawl
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy." - Woody Allen

And we can end world hunger and make an army of Stana Katic clones whose sole purpose in life is to walk around in lingerie and alternatingly refer to us as Batman and/or Captain Mal (I like Castle, but he is no Malcolm Reynolds).

Or we can try and make things better by working through (and subverting) the existing system.

I vote for the Stana Katic clone\to be called Batman option. It is the more feasible option I think.

What I hate about all this is that they made this system seem acceptable to people.

And we can end world hunger and make an army of Stana Katic clones whose sole purpose in life is to walk around in lingerie and alternatingly refer to us as Batman and/or Captain Mal (I like Castle, but he is no Malcolm Reynolds).

*Kadayi would very much like to visit this alternative reality*

Can we make some Olivia Wilde clones as well?

But yeah back on OT, this 'Tax the games' idea is just fucked, and is a complete denial of the real issue of gun culture being a massive problem.